A former teacher and principal, Reverend Mokgobedi Makgethoa Serage, found a new home in agriculture after she retired in 2011.A former teacher and principal who took a leap of faith by establishing a peach orchard with her pension payout a decade ago has carved out a new career — and landed supermarket deals that have helped expand the business.
An ongoing challenge is a lack of equipment as they have to spray, thin and harvest manually. The same applies to“We do 25,000 trees manually — tree by tree. It’s so hard. We need a tractor to help us to run around and maybe a spray on our backs. I When she started, the Lebowakgomo resident had two hectares of land, which was later extended to 15 hectares under cultivation.
Dibesho explained that the 15ha is divided into 10ha for fruit tree production with vegetable production on the other five hectares to sustain employment during the fruit off-season.The produce is due for harvest in October and November. woman smallholder farmer in 2017.
A nice, inspiring story. It seems that peach trees very definitely require insecticides.
So inspiring! 🥰